That's why Lehman in Jan. 2004 finally felt comfortable enough to install wireless access points.
No, that saves on switching infrastructure and cabling and much more while investing more in wireless access points.
Krulwich counted at least five Microsoft patents related to determining phone location using wireless access points, radio beacons, device movements and other radio signals.
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The STRIVA-enabled headphone receives these special address instructions from the MyKOSS server and links the headphone directly to music streams using available wireless access points.
The speedway has been equipped with Cisco Aironet 1300 series wireless access points at each turn and the start and finish lines, helping maintain constant contact with the cars.
Each Oasis-class ship utilizes shape recognition cameras, smart cards, 900 wireless access points and other digital technologies to eliminate lines in experiences ranging from dining and onboard activities to excursions.
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According to Reuters, Massport instructed airlines in 2005 to unplug their wireless access points so that travelers could be graced with the new fee-based system it was installing airport-wide.
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Once an account is created, the STRIVA products are mated to the user account and sent special instructions on preferred wireless access points nearby when away from home or the office.
Competitor Skyhook Wireless, which until recently provided the location backbone for every iPad, iPod and iPhone device Apple shipped, has been doing this since 2003, before many homes had wireless access points.
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One of Google's trials is in Cape Town, South Africa, involving a "base station" that broadcasts the signals with a range of several miles, and wireless access points, or small boxes that receive the signals.
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" Interestingly enough, the system supposedly relies on "modified software" running on regular WiFi equipment, and wireless access points with the newfangled software can seemingly daisy-chain directional network traffic through "several carefully aligned steerable antennas in order to eventually reach a fiber link connected to the internet.
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Murphy said each of the school district's three primary schools now has four wireless Ethernet access points.
Its 24 -- soon to become 35 -- wireless Ethernet access points link Palmer's 600 middle and high school students across eight campus buildings.
The conference's wireless network consists of 25 network access points and eight listening devices, which allows the network to monitor and control all wireless access throughout the conference.
Cisco's software allows IT departments to monitor wireless use and ensure that unauthorized access points are not added to the network.
When used with Amped Wireless High Power Wi-Fi Access Points, the PLA2 can be used to extend Wi-Fi coverage through concrete or steel walls to eliminate Wi-Fi dead spots.
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He linked up with Shepherd Neame, Britain's oldest brewer and owner of 368 pubs, mostly in rural southeast England, and built a wireless network in three communities using antennas set atop pubs as access points.
The access points, made by a California company called Carlson Wireless Technologies Inc.
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The system utilizes equipment from Proxim Wireless -- namely the company's 100 ORiNOCO AP-4000MR mesh access points -- and adding CCTV video surveillance cams, VoIP channels, and GPS capabilities are all in the cards.
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The company has bought additional spectrum, deployed improved High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) software and added fiber backhaul, which carries data to wireless distribution points.
However, all modern smartphones have Wi-Fi built in, and wireless networks are common enough in indoor spaces that an app could easily scan for known access points and calculate your position using trilateration.
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For such wireless networks, Google has publicly supported the possibility of using small, inexpensive cellular devices, called "micro cells" that would be located at the access points and would harness the TV airwaves to broadcast the equivalent of a 3G or 4G wireless signal for devices within a quarter-mile radius.
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